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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 420–423.
Published: 01 December 1974
... into an application in the broader study of literary his-
tory, criticism, and theory which is the discipline of this essay.
ALAN1:. NAGEL
University of Iowa
The Theater and the Dream: From Metaphor to Form in Renaissance
Drama...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 261–271.
Published: 01 September 1975
...Alan J. Singerman Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 HISTORY AS METAPHOR IN MME DE LAFAYETTE’S
LA PRINCESSE DE CLEVES
By ALANJ. SINGERMAN
In the first published study of Mme de Lafayette’s La Princesse de...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 261–275.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Laurence A. Breiner Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 THE GENERATION OF METAPHOR
IN THOMAS BROWNE
By LAURENCEA. BREINER
Thomas Browne has been variously treated as a scientist, a religious
writer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 224–241.
Published: 01 September 1987
...Raymond Stephanson © 1989 University of Washington 1987 THE PLAGUE NARRATIVES
OF DEFOE AND CAMUS
ILLNESS AS METAPHOR
By RAYMOND STEPHANSON
In her essay Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag writes...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 460–462.
Published: 01 September 1969
... of the
dramatic genres which Kleist was reworking.
HERBERTLINDENBERCER
Stanford University
Byron and the Dynamics of Metaphor. By W. PAULELLEDGE. Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. ix + 155 pp. $5.00.
Interest in Byron’s poetry...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 365–367.
Published: 01 September 1968
...
City of the West: Emerson, America, and Urban Metaphor. By MICHAEL
H. COWAN.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Publi-
cations in American Studies, No. IS, 1967. xiv + 284 pp. $6.50; 48s.
Michael Cowan’s book falls into a standard academic genre, the thematic
study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 181–191.
Published: 01 June 1961
...Werner L. Schlotthaus Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 INGEBORG BACHMANN’S POEM “MEIN VOGEL”
AN ANALYSIS OF MODERN POETIC METAPHOR
By WERNERL. SCHLOTTHAUS
The history of lyric poetry shows strikingly that the modernity of
a poem...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 June 1973
...Vivian R. Pollak Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 “THAT FINE PROSPERITY”
ECONOMIC METAPHORS
IN EMILY DICKINSON’S POETRY
By VIVIANR. POLLAK
Economic metaphors in Emily Dickinson’s poetry...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 214–215.
Published: 01 June 1961
... and the like-have any relation to the text.
FREDSONBOWERS
University of Virginia
Image and Meaning : Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry. By DON
CAMERONALLEN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1960. Pp. viii +
175...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and the Cartesian model of human beings as both body and spirit, since language consisted of material sounds as vehicles for abstract ideas. By the eighteenth century the talking bird in literature had become a metaphor for a natural language that could express the truth in any and all circumstances. In later works...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 363–386.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Thomas J. Otten Ekphrasis undergoes a decisive shift in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his contemporaries. Whereas Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers (John Dryden, Alexander Pope) distinguished between verbal and visual arts through metaphors of realms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 429–451.
Published: 01 December 2010
... with strangers, transforming her ethics into an illiberal form of internationalist expansionism. By entwining these incompatible phenomena, Baum creates a lasting metaphor for U.S. foreign policy: Dorothy as the reluctant traveler who selflessly intervenes in the affairs of strangers with the intention...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 329–349.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of an aesthetics and politics of realism via the seminal text on caste, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), which sets a literary precedent for the representation of untouchability. In it modernist form allows for a particular reading of untouchability; through the abstractions of both Marxism and metaphor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V through shared metaphors of imperial conquest, looting, and war. For their insights and suggestions I wish to thank François Rigolot, Leonard Barkan, Bonnie Honig, Louisa Mackenzie, and the editor of MLQ , Marshall Brown. Cynthia Nazarian is assistant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 301–319.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and pleasures of fiction, of literary study, and of metaphor. The alternative to what has been called “the poverty of context” is the richness and variety of poetic contexts, understood diachronically. 10 “The novel,” according to Lukács ( 1971 : 56), “is the epic of an age in which the extensive totality...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... creative God or passive scribe must be replaced by a focus on the middle ranges of literary agency, which in turn requires theoretical elaboration. Premodern tropes of authorial activity, such as the metaphor of authorship as textile labor, gain a much fuller range of complexity and nuance when...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
... charming than alarming. Inevitably, interrogations led to lessons in sociability and wit to derail some missions promoted by private and public Cold Warriors. Ethical quandaries would soon turn new North American lovers of Latin America toward ironies related to the metaphor of cannibalism that Brazil’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 163–174.
Published: 01 June 1944
...
of unlikeness, alteration of one term by the other, effect of com-
plex and compound terms, and methods of expressing fusion of the
two concepts. The transferred verb is one of the numerous gram-
matical devices used for fusing the terms of a metaphor. Herbert
employed this device to produce varied...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 300–310.
Published: 01 December 1955
..., Temperance, Chastity, Justice) and creating its
imagistic equivalent, usually a fictional personage (Red Cross, Guyon,
Britomart, Artegall) whom he sets in motion in his narrative.
Unlike Shakespeare’s, Spenser’s narrative itself is not rich in
decorative metaphors ; his poetic texture, like his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 1968
... 111
not grow clearer with use: e.g., metaphor and governing or controlling
metaphor, imagistic, structure, resolution, and integration. The relation
between concepts is also often baing. Why, for example, is metaphorical
pattern not a part of “structure,” and why does “structural control...
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